On 1/13/2013 9:30 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:54:41PM -0500, Philip Durbin wrote:
But back to editing GEDCOM files. LifeLines (the executable is
called llines) from http://lifelines.sourceforge.net seems to be a
decent console option. I was able to import my GEDCOM file with a
couple tweaks. It opens up your $EDITOR with a section of GEDCOM but
at least it helps you navigate around. Like GRAMPS, its source of
truth is its own database, but it exports to GEDCOM, of course. It's
growing on me. :)
LifeLines is nice. Had I discovered it before starting Gedcom.pm,
Gedcom.pm may never have been started. And had I known that it would
receive a new lease of life later on, I would never have written
lines2perl which converts LifeLines scripts to Perl scripts using
Gedcom.pm.
As far as editing GEDCOM files is concerned, my website claims:
To store my genealogy I wrote a syntax file and use vim to enter the
data, and Gedcom.pm to validate and manipulate it. I find this to be a
nice solution.
That's still true, I suppose, though in practice I'm afraid that I don't
enter too much data nowadays. However, a big advantage of editing in
vim (or any other decent editor) is that I find it much easier to keep
my data consistent. I can use completion for names and locations. I
can copy and paste. I can treat my GEDCOM file as the database and have
complete control over it. And I can write short perl scripts to
manipulate it. So in that respect I do still find it to be a nice
solution.
As A past user of LifeLines and a writer of quite a few of the LifeLines
Reports that lines2perl converts I think there is lots of room for both.
So thank you for Gedcom.pm. There are a lot of things that you can do
with Gedcom.pm that fit cleanly into the Perl way of doing things that
would not be easy to do with other tools.
I guess I should check out lifelines and see what they have been up to.
I like using a windows app for data entry just because I don't have to
think too much about the data entry process as it is well structured.
But for all the cool stuff I export it as a gedcom file then you Perl
from there on.
-Steve
